Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

Perfect weather here, sunny but not too hot. However the garden is still bone dry.

I've had 3 seperate difficult tooth extractions and now and infection so I find I can only work a short time so have been pottering.

Finally got my neighbours new fence panel painted so oiled the bench, tidied up the pots and gave a lot of snails and slugs their flying lessons.

Colour at this time of year is something I've been looking at and bought a tiny Wind Flower. I too worry about the spreading but I do love them. They come in a lovely dark pink now so all mixed together would look lovely.

Today I noticed that the bees and hover flies just love the full size, original Michaelmas Daisies. More than Verbena or Wallflowers. So they will stay. I keep trying to corall those too with moderate sucess. There are smarter ones but these are the ones the insects like so what can you do.

Farway

Bright is what I'd call today's weather, not sunny but OK with some promise

twopenny said:

Today I noticed that the bees and hover flies just love the full size, original Michaelmas Daisies. More than Verbena or Wallflowers. So they will stay. I keep trying to corall those too with moderate sucess. There are smarter ones but these are the ones the insects like so what can you do.

Wise choice, Michaelmas daises were one the flowers I first learnt to identify, the other was Golden rod,  no doubt the names appealed as much as the flower to child Farway. I don't have room fro either but the mildew would put me off now. I always associate Michaelmas daises with waste land because that was where they grew, probly chcucked there by gardeners fed up with them

I've potted on the coleus cuttings I rooted in water, very speedy rooting, just a fortnight and here's what they look like

RAS

That's impressive, Farway.

And is this what you are after?

Farway

Nice pic RAS, plus a bonus bee for extra points. They would brighten up a space that's for sure

Sunshine & warmth this morning, bit breezy but OK for that, only garden task today is watering, again, it's the pots out the back, one has a dwarfed Golden Delicious apple in it & I don't want that gasping at this apple ripening time

With apples ripening I picked all the ones off my unknown variety tree yesterday, a good crop but no where near as many as there have been in previous years, just the one carrier bag full when I have had four or so, but it's enough for my needs any more & I'd be giving them away because they are not good keepers & only so much freezer space available & CBA drying / dehydrating 

OT but following recent comments about aircraft con trails appearing again I downloaded flightradar24 to my 'phone. A great free toy, has map with little yellow aircraft, click on aircraft & up pop details, make, model, start & finish destinations. This weekend is Goodwood Revival near here and it's helicopters like wasps around jam pot over there, I once made mistake of trying to go there in a car, worse than Stonehenge bypass on a bank holiday

Back to gardening, here are my unknown apples, I'll stew & freeze the majority

Davesnave

As some of you know, I was away at a Hindu wedding this week, but with the nuptials complete, it was a case of "Everyone back to our place" on Friday. Many in our new family wished to scope-out Dave's Acres......and anyway, it's traditional.

Imagine the horror and embarrassment when we discovered in our absence we'd been overrun with elephants......

Will we be able to live this down???

goldfinches

@Davesnave - Brilliant elephants and hope your old and new family members appreciated all the work you'd put in to Dave's Acres and didn't trample any special plants during the festivities.

I've been listening to wrens and robins staking out their territories on my regular walk over the last few days so it's clearly autumn hereabouts and I'm looking forward to the leaves dropping to give me a clearer view of the birds.

Blackjack_Davy

Bone dry again it hasn't rained for a good three weeks probably four. Very wet late july august and now it seems to be a late summer very warm again today got the fan blowing at the moment

First year the nectarine tree produced fruit in any quantity had loads but quite difficult to know when they're ripe and the bugs birds and wasps get to them before you can and they rot quickly. I guess thats what you get when you grow from a stone. Still a very attractive tree especially when covered in fruit though.

Plenty of runner beans this year thats down to all the rain we had previously they've run out of steam now much too dry despite irrigation

lovely anemones above most you see seem to be pink but I like the white better especially honorine jobert. They do spread but slowly they never get out of hand

Davesnave

goldfinches said:

@Davesnave - Brilliant elephants and hope your old and new family members appreciated all the work you'd put in to Dave's Acres and didn't trample any special plants during the festivities.

The elephants are in a house share with the happy couple and our new family are particularly lovely people, so there was little danger of that. They rented a large, old mill with a walled third of an acre garden where the 3 days of preliminaries were conducted. The Mid Devon weather was merciful, so although there was a marquee, much of our time was spent outside. The wedding venue itself also had a magnificent walled garden...

So  they wre actually slumming it a little, back here!

Farway

Congratulations to the couple & you Dave, sounds like a very pleasant weekend, and the walled garden as a bonus.

Weather this morning is just dull, looking at map there's rain about and maybe coming my way, could do with a drop TBH otherwise I will have to water the pots at the front before too long

Blackjack, nectarines sounds good, but I can image everything wanting a bite, I tried with a peach once but beside the bugs it also succumbed to leaf curl so I've not bothered since it curled up & died

GF, Autumn, nearly here, my pryacantha berries are showing true colour now, not as prolific as last year but plenty for the birds I expect

I hope to be going to Wisley next weekend, weather permitting & camera in hand, could be fungus weather as well as Autumn leaves

phoebe1989seb

Glad it all went well, Dave 😊 I now have elephant envy, lol 😂😂😂

Sorry to hear about your three extractions and infection, 2p ☹️ Hope you're feeling back to full strength very soon!

Rain here late yesterday and through the night, but dry/sunnyish today. No gardening on the agenda for us though as DH is busy demolishing an internal (stone) wall, so I'm labouring - aka making encouraging noises 😉

Outside, we've nothing as exotic as elephants, but the roses continue to bloom away - well, some of them - here's Emily Brontë, The Lady of Shalott and Boscobel....